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On-line Resources—websites, plant databases, and apps

Garden Planning Information

• Native Plant Trust provides education and events about native plants in New England
• Garden Plant Finder helps you find native plants appropriate for your garden
• Ecoregional Planting Guides for U.S. and Canada
• General pollinator garden guidance from U.S. Forest Service: Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden Using Native Plants​
• Tree underplanting guidance to provide insect pupation sites
•  Planting Zone Maps:  USDA Hardiness Zone Map      Ecoregions of New England​

Plant Identification Guides

• New England Regional native plant identification: Go Botany
• United States plant information: USDA Plants Database
• Midwestern U.S.: Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
• Texas: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 

Free Plant ID Apps (iOS, Android)

• iNaturalist
• Seek
• LeafSnap
• PlantNet
• PlantSnap

Invasive Plant Identification and Remediation Information

• Common Invasive Plants in Massachusetts
• Homeowner Removal Techniques for Invasives
• Dealing with Japanese Knotweed
• Massachusetts Prohibited Plant List
• USDA National Invasive Species Information Center​ ​​​​​​

Ecology, Insect, and Bird Information for Everyone

• Xerces Society  For resources about insects, spiders and other invertebrate conservation efforts
• North American Butterfly Association  To help protect butterflies
• BugGuide   Guide for insect identification
• In Defense of Plants (blog and podcast about plants)
• Project Budburst  For teachers and other community groups track bloom times
• USA National Phenology Network  Track plant bloom times and contribute to science
• The Cornell Lab All About Birds  Guide to identify birds​

Organizations that Support Habitat Gardening​

• Homegrown National Parks raises awareness and urgently inspires everyone to address the biodiversity crisis by adding native plants and removing invasive ones where we live, work, learn, pray, and play
• Pollinator Partnership
• Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
• US EPA Protecting Bees and Other Pollinators from Pesticides
• Grow Native Massachusetts
• Ecological Landscape Alliance

Print Resources​

• How Can I Help? Saving Nature with Your Yard (Tallamy) 2025
• The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of our Most Essential Native Trees (Tallamy) 2021
• ​Natures Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard (Tallamy) 2019
• Bringing Nature Home: How you can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants; updated and expanded edition (Tallamy) 2007​ 

Guides that may be useful resources:

• Native Plants for New England Gardens (Jaffe & Richardson) 2017
• Wildflowers of New England (Elliman) 2016
• Sibley Guide to Trees (Sibley) 2009
• Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants (Holm) 2014
• Insects of New England & New York (Murray) 2012
• Sibley Guide to Birds (2nd Edition) (Sibley) 2014

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